Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determination to plug leaks, the President-elect has imposed a secrecy pledge on his transition staff. He has also replaced his campaign mantra, "Read my lips," with a new slogan: "Stay tuned. Wait for the announcement." Says an aide: "I don't count anything a done deal until George Bush announces it. He can be unpredictable." Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner...
Even so, the final outcome remained uncertain as the two principal players repeatedly thought they had an agreement, only to find that the other had failed to deliver what had been expected. In the end, it was the persistent middleman efforts by Swedish diplomats that helped close the deal...
...this week in New York City, provides for the phased withdrawal of an estimated 50,000 Cuban troops. It also sets April 1 as the trigger date for the implementation of U.N. Resolution 435, which calls for Namibian independence and for supervised elections in the onetime German colony. The deal, delicately linking interests among all the participants, promises an end to two long-running conflicts: it caps the 13 years of hostilities between South Africa and Cuban-backed Angolan forces, and it clears the way for a cease-fire in the 22-year-old war between the Angolan-based guerrillas...
...trading in shares of the real estate firm Recruit Cosmos, 20 people implicated in the scheme have given up their posts. Last week Hisashi Shinto, 78, chairman of the giant firm Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, resigned after admitting that his bank account contained $73,000 in profits from the Recruit deal. Just five days earlier, Finance Minister Keiichi Miyazawa had departed under a similar cloud...
...programs that will help their workers bridge the skills gap. Getting employees to stick with classes can be difficult, however, since the sessions are frequently held away from the workplace after hours. Larger companies, which command the resources to hold classes in-house, have sweetened the deal by offering workers time off during the workday to attend. Success in both cases depends on how strongly individual companies support their programs -- and how effectively they defuse workers' fears about getting fired for owning up to subpar literacy...